General Motors Co and its Cruise self-driving car unit have received $5 billion in investment commitments to develop a robot taxi service that could safely navigate the city streets of San Francisco by the end of next year – putting it ahead Alphabet Inc’s Waymo self-driving car unit, Uber and Lyft.
Unexpected technical challenges – including the difficulty that Cruise cars have identifying whether objects are in motion – means putting GM’s driverless cars on the road in a large scale way in 2019 is looking highly unlikely.
“Nothing is on schedule,” said one GM source, referring to certain mileage targets and other milestones the company has already missed.
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